April 5, 2017
The introduction of just one small MetroCard transformed NYC by lowering the transaction costs for traveling to work and friends in different boroughs.
March 28, 2017
More than a number, the cost of living in the world's most expensive cities is about bread and wine and who can afford to stay.
March 27, 2017
To see what how much we work and sleep and play, and what the GDP does not tell us, we can use the American Time Use Survey.
March 20, 2017
Including how much we spend on the tooth fairy, the cost of raising a child can simply be one total or it can involve different specific expenditures.
February 15, 2017
To find out if a relationship will last, you can ask the New York Federal Reserve Bank about credit cards and assortative mating.
February 2, 2017
As the early 20th century interior decorator who rejected Victorian design, Elsie de Wolfe also created the first group of aspirational shoppers.
January 25, 2017
Barely recognized by U.S. News ranking, colleges where graduates achieve income mobility prove that the American Dream remains a viable goal.
January 4, 2017
While working at home has become the focus of a new French law, the bigger issue could be how much new technology enables the firm to monitor our lives.
January 2, 2017
November 17, 2016
From the Wells Fargo scandal to the British National Health Service and Chilean bus drivers, sometimes incentives can have unintended consequences.
December 29, 2015
During the past 40 years, Brazil's fertility rates declined. One cause was the new values that soap operas conveyed to an uneducated rural population.
December 13, 2015
Monetary incentives can influence a decision and distort the information we access for our cost and benefit research.